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The big week is here! MCA TEST TIME! Please...please...please have your child in bed early on Monday and Tuesday night and on time to school for Tuesday and Wednesday. They should also eat a good breakfast which I'm sure always happens anyway. We test right at 8:00 a.m. on April 15th and 16th. We will be doing the Reading test. Please remind your child that they should read their stories twice before answering the questions. Some of you will be getting a letter from me today indicating your child is repeating forgetting to either return their Math homework or not even attempting to do it. You can count on a homework assignment each evening unless they write in their agenda they are just to study their flashcards. As your child gets older you can count on them getting even more homework so the habits they establish this year will stay with them for a long time. Please check in with them each night and see what they have done. Thank you again for your support . Why read 20 minutes at home? *What follows is based on research done with parents of young children. Student A Reads: -20 minutes a day -3600 minutes a school year -1,800,000 words per year -Scores in the 90th percentile on standardized tests Student B Reads: -5 minutes a day -900 minutes a school year -282,000 words a year -Scores in the 50th percentile on standardized tests Student C Reads: -1 minute a day -180 minutes a school year -8,000 words per year -Scores in the 10th percentile on standardized tests If they start reading 20 minutes per night in Kindergarten, by the end of 6th grade Student A will have read for the equivalent of 60 school days, Student B will have read for the equivalent of 12 school days, and Student C will have read for the equivalent of 3 school days. Want to be a better reader? READ!! After reading that bit of information I also tend to look at the big picture. Would student C even be able to attend college someday based on their scores? I'm not saying going to college is the ultimate goal of everyone, but I just read an article and am including some items from it. "In a modern, knowledge-based economy, the only thing more expensive than going to college is not going to college," he says. College-educated young adults make more money per year than those that do not. Here are the numbers: Those with a college degree now make $17,500 more per year than those without — a wage gap that's doubled in recent decades. Those without a degree are four times more likely to be unemployed. Source: Pew Research Center Credit: Alyson Hurt
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